Sales Manager, Mid-Market SMB

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!Available Locations: Remote, USAbout the departmentThe Americas GTM team is Cloudflare’s largest sales organization that comprises AEs, AMs, SEs, BDRs, CSMs, and Operations roles - all working together to help our customers adopt Cloudflare and create phenomenal internet-enabled experiences.The sales team at Cloudflare helps customers solve real, technical problems and needs to support their business outcomes, while also creating revenue streams that fuel Cloudflare’s culture of innovation and excellence.About the roleAs a Mid Market Manager, you will have the opportunity to position and differentiate the Enterprise platform experience for Cloudflare, while reinforcing strong pipeline and forecast management practices. You will extensively interact with other teams within Business Development, Sales Operations, Product, and Marketing to drive new business across untapped accounts.This leadership role is within the mid-market SMB segment, and focuses on both the acquisition of new commercial accounts, as well as the expansion of existing customer accounts. Within the mid-market segment, you will support a team of account executives. A consistent expectation for all sellers within this segment, will involve developing customer engagement from technical professionals through to senior executive levels, and across Security, Network, Development and Infrastructure teams, as an avenue to building and converting thousands of prospective customers.This role extends beyond analyzing and reporting; we take pride in helping to design and implement solutions to the different challenges that can arise in our fast paced and innovative environment.Responsibilities• Accurately forecast commits by month and quarter, and deliver attainment to quarterly and annual sales targets.• Oversee, coach and motivate a team of account executives, consistently measuring their success against overall quota attainment, new logo acquisition and expansion into existing accounts.• Hold regular 1x1s with team members, maintaining open and transparent communication.• Develop and uplevel team selling abilities through consistent focus on enablement, solution selling and metric improvements. Build and refine sales runbooks and scripts.• Assist in the continued codification of various product focused playbooks on how to connect data led insights to Cloudflare solutions that solve critical business challenges Cloudflare customers face daily.• Maintain a funnel of new hire candidates by continuously interviewing and building a network of candidate potentials.• Monitor access and proficiency of enablement resources and various sales tool licenses.• Collaborate with Sales Enablement, Product and Product Marketing to provide and optimize sales training for newly launched features and products.Requirements• Experienced (3+ years) high-growth SaaS leader with experience leading sales teams.• Experience driving best practices in a channel or distributor environment.• Experience in developing scalable relationships with target partners, to expand the partner ecosystem in targeted regions.• Record of high performance in consistently meeting and exceeding plan, while supporting majority of direct reports to success.• Excellent written communication and presentation skills.• Track record of success in selling new products and early access solutions.• Experience in networking across business units within an account and through M&As; multi-thread to identify, engage and close new divisional buyers.• Demonstrable record of success and passion for acquisition and expansion tactics.• Coaching level knowledge of Gap Selling, Sandler, Challenger, or other sales methodologies.• Strong talent for driving consensus and support among internal and external stakeholders and champions.EquityThis role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.Health & Welfare Benefits• Medical/Rx Insurance• Vision Insurance• Flexible Spending Accounts• Commuter Spending Accounts• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program• Global Travel Medical Insurance• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan• Employee Stock Participation PlanTime Off• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leaveWhat Makes Cloudflare Special?We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.Project Galileo : We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.Athenian Project : We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.Path Forward Partnership : Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.1.1.1.1 : We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. 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